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South Launceston: Walleah, 2025, 67pp.

There are seventeen years between Buoyancy, Louise Oxley’s second book, and this new one. There were five years between her first book, Compound Eye – little larger than a chapbook, really – and Buoyancy. Barely over a hundred poems in more than twenty years must make Louise Oxley the most restrained of Austral...


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Swindon, UK: Shearsman, 2025, 109pp.

One of the underlying structures of Jane Frank’s poems involves moving from a very detailed description of landscape – especially strong on precise colours – to the sudden insertion of a personal element. A reader might ask which of these two issues is the more important. The personal element is so ubiquitous in the poems of Gardening ...


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St Lucia: University of Queensland Press: 1990, 251pp.

My involvement with Jennifer Rankin’s poetry relates only to the production of her first book, Ritual Shift, the seventeenth in the Gargoyle Poets series of small books, one of whose policies was to introduce new poets in a twenty-four to thirty-six page format which would obviate the need for them to accumul...


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Waratah, NSW: Puncher and Wattmann, 2025, 79pp.

This is very much a book of poems about Tasmania but there’s little trace of Hobart or Launceston in it, let alone of the colonial legacy, of the convict era or the massacres. It’s very much about the physical environment and the title, Lithosphere, refers to those parts of the earth’s crust exposed on the uplands. The ...


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Lines of Desire (Waratah, NSW: Puncher and Wattmann, 2025, 77pp.)
Màthair Beinn (np: Vagabond Press, 2025, 96pp.)

Two poets who both share a dual heritage and use it in different ways. Paul Dawson is of mixed Asian and Australian descent and Eartha Davis comes from a New Zealand and Scottish family. With our obsession with liminal heritages – between ge...


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